Allen Toussaint
&
Lili Haydn
From ANDRAS JONES: We’re wrapping up this Radio8Vault episode with something truly precious. On May 23, 2011 we had the honor of welcoming ALLEN TOUSSAINT to the realm of The Pop Oracle. As with so many of the legends we’ve featured on Radio8Ball, the great Toussaint was on his way to town to play a show at Jazz Alley in Seattle. We used a mix of his songs, his versions and those of selected others, as the oracle fodder and I gathered a crew of cats to ask the questions, in this case, longtime friend of the show LILI HAYDN. I’m not going to describe it any more than that except to say the theme song on this installment was performed by All Day Sucker.
FORTUNE TELLER
by Allen Toussaint
Went to the fortune teller
To have my fortune read
I didn’t what to tell her
I had a dizzy feeling in my head
Said she’d take a look at my palm
Said “Son, do you feel kind of warm?”
And she looked into her crystal ball
Said “You’re in love”
Said it could not be so
Not with all the girls I know
Said when the next one arrives
Looking into her eyes
I left there in a hurry
Much to my big surprise
The next thing I discovered
The fortune teller told me lies
So I ran back to that woman
Mad as I could be
Told her I didn’t see nobody
How she made a fool out of me
At last something shook me
As if it came down from above
And now the fortune teller
And I fell in love
